Dear Giminie:

Thank you for your good wishes and I wish you the same. I would like to understand your situation better, therefore I ask:

1. You wrote that you are working overseas away from your family, but that you are staying with your relatives during this time- aren’t your relatives your family?

2. You wrote about your relatives with whom you live: “they often pushed me out to get groceries”- what do you mean by pushed you out to get groceries?

And why don’t they allow you to cook in their home, where you live (“I am not allowed to cook there”)?

3. “I have gotten hate speech from my colleagues”- what kind of hate speech? And if your boss is nice, why didn’t he protect you from that hate speech?

4. Regarding your boyfriend, you wrote that he is long distance, but then you wrote: “due to this lockdown situation, we are not able to meet on the day we have set”- is he long distance or does he live close enough so to meet you in-person?

anita